Scott Walker: My message to the country

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he’s getting ready to send a message — not only to the people of the Badger State but to the entire nation.

Walker, who is set to face off against Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in a highly anticipated recall election on June 5, said in an interview Wednesday that a victory next month will resonate powerfully across the country that voters want elected officials who are ready to challenge special interest groups.

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“It’s about courage,” the Republican governor said on Fox News. “If they affirm me on the vote on June 5, I think [that] sends a powerful message not only around Wisconsin but around the country that voters are serious when they say they want leaders who are willing to take on the tough issue.”

He added, “They want leaders who are willing to stand up and take on the powerful special interests and put the power back in the hands of the taxpayers. … That’s really what’s ultimately at stake. Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?”

According to the most recent polls, Walker is leading against Barrett by a small margin. In the interview Wednesday, Walker said some of the passionate anger that had driven organizers to force him to face the voters’ judgment one more time had dissipated over time.

“There is a certain amount of recall fatigue, that people who are angered originally realize a lot of that was misguided anger,” he said. “When they see that the reforms are working, when they see a lot of the attacks that have been put in, have been brought in from the national money and public employee national unions, was really misguided and sometimes just outright lies — I think the voters on the other side have seen a real fatigue in that.”

Organizers collected some 1 million signatures in Wisconsin to revolt against Walker and force a recall election after the conservative governor pushed through a law that ended many collective-bargaining rights for public employees. Several other Republican state lawmakers from Wisconsin will also be put to the test in June.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Governors Association announced Thursday that it is spending an additional $1 million to aid the recall effort. The money will in part help fund ads already airing in the state, and bring the DGA’s total investment in the Wisconsin race to over $3 million.

"The process of collective bargaining, cannot be transplanted into the public service," Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, "I want to empha my conviction that militant tactics have no place" in the public sector. "A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government."

---Franklin D. Roosevelt

Governor Walker has stated a fire and it will burn across America and public sector unions will loose their power nation wide. In tough times tough measures are necessary to balance budgets. Wisconsin is a win for the taxpayer. Republican or Democrat

Scott Walker IS a courageous patriot standing up to overt threats of violence by union leaders and Obama supporters against conservative governors.

Did you see the latest outrage?

South Carolina AFL-CIO Leader Bashes Nikki Haley Pinata

Donna Dewitt, the outgoing president of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, is seen in this video bashing a piñata of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's face while Dewitt and her colleagues were at a retreat in Columbia, S.C. Saturday afternoon.

Ultimately the message should be that the legislation in the state is working (http://bit.ly/IHUdsH), and issuing a recall over public policy seems like an abuse of the recall system. It would set the precedent that any aggressive legislation could be deemed grounds for recall, and in turn could cause any kind of progress the state tries to make to grind to a halt.

Walker steps up to the plate, firm grip on the bat and feet planted in the box and a mind set on what he knows he must do. There has been a lot of talk about this match-up and listening to the press you just might think that Scott Walker was way out of his league here. On the mound is union thug wearing number 1…. Union thug has behind him a team of union parasites who make some pretty good money… this team was not cheap! Here comes the pitch…. Walker swings!!! MY OH MY!! Look at it go!! It's going …. Going….. GONE!!! An out of the ballpark grand slam by Scott Walker!! Those union parasites did not even bother to move… looks like they knew where this one was going from the sound of that bat… ouch!! And the State of Wisconsin takes the lead over the union parasites 4 to zip!!

Dissapointed union parasite fan... RoseevilleMom... leaves the stadium still wheeling from the combination of the shocking loss to the People of Wisconsin and from having drank too much from that favorite union brew "Delusional Greed". Better luck next time Union Parasites!

I hope Walker has the courage to say what his involvement was in the John Doe corruption probe. If he didn't have anything to do with embezzling money for wounded veterans, then he should come clean and say so. Instead, he's funneling that out-of-state money into his legal defense fund.